Quotes About Culture

The responsibility of leadership is not to come up with all the ideas but to create an environment in which great ideas can thrive.

Dining is the privilege of civilization. . . . The nation which knows how to dine has learnt the leading lesson of progress.

We have no patent on anything we do and anything we do can be copied by anyone else. But you can't copy the heart and the soul and the conscience of the company.

History has shown that one cannot legislate a culture of integrity. And yet, one of the paramount responsibilities and challenges of corporate leadership is to ensure such a culture.

Values hold the team together, provide stability for the team to grow upon, measure the team's performance, give direction and guidance and attract like-minded people.

Marketing management is now tribal leadership.

Professional intellectuals are the voice of a culture and are, therefore, its leaders, its integrators and its bodyguards.

America's cultural table is set by the people living in the three bubbles - New York Washington D.C. and Hollywood.

Leading a big company means never allowing a company to take itself too seriously.

If you start out to solely make money, you will attract the wrong kind of employees.

Schools often get the teachers they deserve!

A risk-taking environment starts at the top of a corporation. If the CEO doesn't have this spirit, chances are you won't find it anywhere else in the organization.

In collaborative cultures, failure and uncertainty are not protected but shared and discussed to gain support.

Culture is the possibility and impossibility that bacon and fruit can appear on the same plate.

This obsession with leadership... It's not neutral; it's American, this idea of the heroic leader who comes in on a white horse to save the day. I think it's killing American companies.

An enterprise is a community of human beings, not a collection of "human resources".

The consciousness of lucid dreaming is a cultural evolution. It's something that we are talking about and learning about, not biological evolution.

The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.

Travel is rich with learning opportunities, and the ultimate sourvenir is a broader perspective.

If you are going to have a risk-taking culture, you can't really look at every failure as a failure, you've got to be able to look at the failure as a learning opportunity.

I'm learning Cuban. It's like Spanish, but with fewer words for luxury items.

Whether we're talking about race or gender or class, popular culture is where the pedagogy is, it's where the learning is.

Language is not a genetic gift, it is a social gift. Learning a new language is becoming a member of the club -the community of speakers of that language.

The traditional Sanskrit learning has given to Brahaman community of Kashmir, small as it has been always, a distinguished place in the history of Sanskrit literature since early times.